PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Content Validity, Extraversion And Introversion, Face Validity
10 Dec 2015
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Personality assessment i: personality testing and its consequences. For personality traits to be useful for the scientific understanding of the mind the essential task is measurement. An individuals personality consists of characteristic patterns of behavior, thought or emotional experience that exhibit relative consistency across time and situations. These patterns include motives, intentions, goals, strategies, and subjective representations. These variables and others are stable attributes of psychological makeup of individuals; any attempt to measure them entails personality assessment. Personality assessment is not restricted to psychologists practiced by you, friends and family. Personality traits are part of how we think about each other and ourselves. The most important thing to know about a personality assessment is the degree to which it is right or wrong. Evaluations of professional personality judgments are said to assess their validity; evaluations of amateur judgments generally use the term accuracy. Personality testers who distribute samples at the american psychological.
